DevOps and Application Lifecycle Management

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Agile methodologies speed up the development and test cycle and make sure that you can deliver real value to your customers on a regular basis. Use TFVC or Git version control to store your code for your app and give you access to different versions of your code. Set up builds for your app. Create unit tests that are run for every check in and build.

Test that the user stories you want to release work as planned. Create test automation as necessary. Easily provision environments to use to run tests. Load test the performance of your app. Track when the quality is sufficient to release to the customer.

Make it easier for ops to release fast enough to your customers. Use Release Management to provide automation for the deployment of your apps to your environments and sign off at each stage of your release. This provides a consistent process for all your releases from testing and pre-production through to release to your customers.

Visual Studio and Team Foundation clients support program managers and other stakeholders to connect to TFS and Visual Studio Online. You can get started using the free Visual Studio Community edition. Compare Visual Studio Offerings to learn what editions provide access to premium features.

Team Explorer is installed with each version of Visual Studio. You can download it for free by installing Visual Studio Community. Team Explorer supports connecting to TFS and Visual Studio Online.

Use Team Explorer Everywhere , the Team Foundation Server plug-in for Eclipse, to connect to TFS and Visual Studio Online from Eclipse. The TFS plug-in supports version control, build, and work item tracking.

If your team project uses Git, you can use your Git command-line tools to work with the repositories in your team project. If it uses TFVC, use the cross-platform command-line tool.